🇺🇸🇻🇪 "TRUMP IS STARTING A WAR THAT WILL BACKFIRE - AGAINST AN ENEMY THE CIA HELPED CREATE"
The Grayzone’s founder Max Blumenthal has spent years covering U.S. regime changes in Latin America, and has interviewed leaders including Maduro.
Not many know the region’s history like he does.
Max explains how the “Cartel of the Suns,” now sanctioned and used to justify strikes on Venezuela, was invented in the 1980s by U.S. intelligence.
The CIA and DEA used Venezuela as a cocaine corridor, letting drugs “walk” through the U.S. in a covert effort to map trafficking networks.
That operation, launched during the Reagan years, helped seed the narco-state narrative later used against Hugo Chávez, and now, against Maduro.
What began as a secret drug route became a political weapon: branding Venezuela as a cartel state to justify sanctions, asset seizures, and military buildup.
We get into:
• How the “Cartel of the Suns” narrative rebrands regime change as drug enforcement.
• Why U.S.-backed coups in 2002 and 2019 failed, and what’s changed.
• Why most Venezuelans, even those against Maduro, oppose U.S. sanctions.
• How CIA-linked drug routes are connected to today’s covert operations.
• Why regime change could spark a civil war and mass migration.
• The role of Miami’s anti-socialist bloc in shaping Washington’s Latin America policy.
• Why Trump’s pressure campaign may end in a deal, not a war.
The U.S. is still using its '80s playbook.
@MaxBlumenthal believes the results will be inevitably disastrous.
00:49 - U.S. suddenly begins accusing Maduro of drug trafficking
01:29 - “Cartel of the Suns” becomes the narrative to justify escalation
02:37 - U.S. intelligence once enabled Venezuelan drug flow for covert ops
03:41 - Those ops increased, not reduced, cocaine flooding U.S. streets
04:08 - Venezuela is minor in global cocaine supply chain
11:53 - Maduro refused to arrest Guaidó - denying the U.S. a propaganda win
15:40 - Military loyalty to Chávez and Maduro crushed coup attempts
22:45 – Threats of invasion trigger “rally around the flag” effect
24:57 - Most Venezuelans - even opposition - reject sanctions
29:49 - U.S. allies like Ecuador are deeper in drug trade than Venezuela
35:54 - Full U.S. invasion would mean civil war and political blowback
36:15 - Over 70% of Americans oppose war with Venezuela
43:58 - Regime change would spike U.S. gas prices
57:36 - Foreign policy decisions bypass U.S. voters
58:37 – American public now leans toward diplomacy, not intervention
🚨😭CRYBABY ALERT: CHICAGO COUNCILWOMAN THREATENS FEDS, BLAMES BAD KNEES FOR NOT ATTACKING
Chicago’s Jeanette Taylor popped off, saying “we all for a good ass whooping," joking the only reason she’s not beating federal agents is that “my knees ain't no good.”
So basically: she’s a violent threat... just one cortisone shot away.
In the same breath, she claimed “I ain’t from f**king here,” because her ancestors “got the free boat trip.”
By her logic, no one’s from anywhere unless their great-great-grandparents were airlifted in by golden doves during a rainbow parade.
Somehow, working for the city while inciting a brawl with the government is just another Wednesday in Chicago politics.
Load the popcorn and keep your Kevlar close; we've got another slinger on the loose.
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🚨😭 CRYBABY ALERT - SEN. MARKEY SHRIEKS: “REPUBLICANS ARE KILLING PEOPLE!”
“This is a red alert moment,” he howled — before accusing Republicans of literally killing people.
Subtle, right?
According to Markey, hospitals will collapse, Trump and RFK Jr. are frauds, and the only cure is… more federal programs and emergency feelings.
Apparently, disagreeing with him now counts as homicide. Somebody pass him a blood pressure cuff and a pocket Constitution.
Note to Sen. Markey: If every vote you don’t like equals mass murder… You might want to dry your tears and have a drink.
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🚨😭CRYBABY ALERT: MAYOR BASS THROWS TANTRUM AT ICE RAID LIKE IT’S HER BACKYARD BBQ
Mayor Karen Bass pulled up to a federal immigration raid yelling “leave right now!” like she caught ICE sneaking the last hot dog at her cookout.
Spoiler: She has zero authority over Federal Agents. None. Nada.
But that didn’t stop her from trying to cancel deportations with pure sass and delusion.
“Unacceptable!” she cried, while agents kept calm and carried on… because federal law doesn’t answer to city-level meltdowns.
Bass acted like LA’s borders suddenly extended to immigration law, waving her moral outrage like it was a badge.
Someone hand her a juice box and a civics textbook.
The agents didn’t flinch.
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🚨😭CRYBABY ALERT: HOUSE DEMS STAGE GROUP CRY ON CAPITOL STEPS
Every House Democrat locked arms on the Capitol steps today for a full-blown group meltdown over Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, chanting “HELL NO!” like it was a dramatic middle school play called “Feelings: The Filibuster.”
Rep Jeffries, eyes misty, declared:
“EVERY. SINGLE. Democrat will vote HELL NO!” - then presumably collapsed into a trust fall onto a pile of tote bags.
They called it “badass.” America called it liberal college theater… with a side of entitlement.
It was less protest, more Capitol Hill cry circle… add in some bonus hashtags and zero self-awareness.
Somebody get them a safe space, a therapy llama, and maybe a copy of the bill they didn’t read.
Cheers to Tears!
🚨😭CRYBABY ALERT: FCC DEM MELTS DOWN OVER PARAMOUNT’S $16M “TRUMP TIP”
Paramount just Venmo’d Trump $16 million to make a pesky lawsuit about Kamala and 60 Minutes disappear… and the FCC’s resident Dem Anna Gomez is bawling louder than Don Lemon on election night.
Trump sued claiming “60 Minutes” defamed him by making J6 sound like he’d personally led a Viking hat parade during Kamala’s interview.
She’s shrieking “First Amendment meltdown!” and claiming Paramount’s just buttering up the feds to score their $8.4 billion merger.
Meanwhile, Trump’s grinning ear-to-ear, probably picking out new gold curtains for Mar-a-Lago.
Win-win, baby.
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BREAKTHROUGH DRUG REVERSES NERVE DAMAGE—RESTORES VISION & BRAIN FUNCTION
Scientists have developed a drug that repairs myelin—the protective sheath around nerves—potentially reversing damage from MS, strokes, and brain injuries.
LL-341070 dramatically sped up myelin repair in tests, restoring lost vision and brain function.
Researchers say it could be a game-changer for neurological diseases.
Human trials are still ahead, but experts believe this could be the first real step toward helping the brain heal itself.
Source: The Brighter Side
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